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TIL: High Frequency Traders pay up to $6,000/month to get information 2 seconds before the general public

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R7g51 TIL Jeffrey Dahmer was inspired by the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. He wanted to build a “temple” out of his victims’ skulls where he could sit and absorb a “spiritural force or power”
GYbZG TIL that Turtles are omnivores and eat lots of plants - when they do this they are also eating the plants seeds. Many seeds are spread when turtles defecate. They also can carry seeds on their shells, often covered in algae.
xaOo TIL in the scene in Inglorious Bastards where Dianne Kruger is being strangled it was actually Quentin Tarantino choking her out because he thinks that fake strangling never looks real in movies.
N7pne TIL of Aeschylus, an ancient Greek tragedian, who died in 456 or 455 BC when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his bald head mistaking it for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile.
n5ZP TIL: woman who had won a lottery, filed for divorce in hurry and at the end lost all of her lottery money to her ex husband as a result of violating disclosure laws (he sued her after he learned about the money)